Writing the literature review is not a neutral act. In fact, the key central aim of consolidating work in a particular research area is to demonstrate one’s knowledge of this area; that is, one must know the ‘conversations’ concerning the research topic. Literature review becomes violent in the Bourdieusian sense because it imposes particular configurations of privileged knowledge on researchers. Thus, in this paper, we argue that literature review is an enactment of symbolic violence and, in the process, epistemic theft, and central to this practice is the construction of research questions. Literature review, as a site of scholarly conversations, dictates the kinds of questions we ask, thus unwittingly framing our research according to the epistemic demands of past and recent studies. By asking a different set of questions, ‘new’ or different understandings about certain social phenomena may emerge.

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文献综述的暴力和提出新问题的必要性

撰写文献综述并不是一种中立的行为。事实上，巩固特定研究领域的工作的关键核心目标是展示一个人对该领域的知识；也就是说，必须了解有关研究主题的“对话”。文献综述在布迪厄意义上变得暴力，因为它将特权知识的特定配置强加给研究人员。因此，在本文中，我们认为文献综述是象征性暴力的实施，在此过程中是认知盗窃，而这种实践的核心是研究问题的构建。文献综述作为学术对话的场所，决定了我们提出的问题类型，从而不知不觉地根据过去和最近研究的认知要求来构建我们的研究。通过提出一组不同的问题，可能会出现对某些社会现象的“新的”或不同的理解。